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SK Telecom, Kakao and KT to launch ‘AI for Everyone’ this year as government says race is ‘too close to call’

From Chosun Ilbo · () Korean

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  • SK Telecom, Kakao and KT held a launch meeting in Seoul after being selected for South Korea’s ‘AI for Everyone’ project.
  • The government said the three companies were closely matched but did not release their evaluation scores.
  • The project aims to develop a domestically based general-purpose chatbot and public-sector AI agent, reducing reliance on foreign AI services.

SK Telecom, Kakao and KT will develop South Korea’s “AI for Everyone” services after emerging as the selected project operators. The three companies held a launch meeting on the 4th at the Korea Press Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, and presented their development goals.

The government did not disclose the evaluation scores. Instead, it described the competition among the three companies as “too close to call,” leaving the precise gap between them undisclosed.

The project aims to reduce dependence on foreign AI. It will develop a general-purpose chatbot based on domestic models, along with a public-sector AI agent, so that people across South Korea can use locally developed AI services more easily and conveniently.

Too close to call

· South Korean governmentThe government described the narrow evaluation gap among SK Telecom, Kakao and KT without releasing their scores.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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